AHP3/RN3 Community Geriatrics

Make a Difference in Community Geriatrics - AHP3/RN3 Opportunity!

Join our innovative Community Geriatrics team as an AHP3/RN3, where you'll provide specialised care to elderly patients across Adelaide's southern suburbs. This permanent, full-time position offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the lives of older adults while working within SA Health's supportive, multidisciplinary environment. Advance your career in geriatrics with excellent benefits, professional development opportunities, and the job security that comes with being part of South Australia's largest healthcare network.

About the role:

GEM@Home is a geriatrician-led multidisciplinary service, offering care to the older person, with complex medical, functional and or psychosocial needs, in their own home. Community Geriatrics provides short-term case management to prevent hospital admissions, through the delivery of care in the home environment.

Reporting Operationally to the Advanced Nurse Unit Manager, some of your duties for the role will include:

• Individual case management, care planning, and liaison for older patients in the community
• Utilise independent decision making to providing direct, expert clinical care, selecting, and implementing different therapeutic interventions
• Effective complex discharge planning / hospital avoidance through the provision of education, equipment and referral including client/program evaluation
• Linking clients and carers with relevant community resources and services
• Communicating with clients' family, carers, and other service providers
• Contributing to the development of an integrated team approach and culture which is highly responsive to client needs

About you:

• RN3: Registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds, or who is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate,
• Registered Nurse and or Midwife with at least 3 years post-registration experience,
• Demonstrated competence in geriatrics and community Nursing practice in accordance with the relevant standards,
• AHP3: Must hold an appropriate degree level qualification and membership (or eligibility for membership) with the relevant professional association, and/or registration with the relevant Board – Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology, Dietetics, Psychology, Social Work or Exercise Physiology,
• Demonstrated ability to assume responsibility for the provision of clinical allied health services to a designated area as a member of an interdisciplinary team,
• Demonstrated ability to undertake assessment and intervention of clients with a variety of disorders and disabilities, including management of complex cases, particularly those with cognitive impairment or a diagnosis of dementia,
• Demonstrated experience in clinical management and leadership within a discrete unit, including program evaluation and service development.

Please see the attached Role Descriptions for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Shane Mooar, Advanced Nurse Unit Manager, 0481 055 638, shane.mooar@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Wednesday 10 September 2025

The attached role descriptions are currently under review and may be adjusted prior to appointment. All applicants will be provided with the finalised role description.

Attachments:

• RN3 Community Geriatrics- Role Description
• Australian applicant guidelines
• International applicant guidelines

Applicant Information:

• We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
• The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
• Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
• SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job ref: 911654